$89,000 - and in French no less. A lovely excerpt from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · last wk.

You’re caught unawares and offered $1000 per correct word if you recite any existing piece of text you know - accumulating up to the point you make your first mistake. How much do you walk away with?

What are your favorite cities? Mine are: Paris Geneva Copenhagen Florence Porto Beauty counts a lot for me. So do pastries. And bike lanes!

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago

QUESTION: What are your FIVE favourite cities anywhere in the world? Bonus points for persuasive explanations why your choices are “right.” Mine (in no order) are: Paris Barcelona New York Montreal Vancouver

Took a little stroll through the forests of Endor (Cheatham Grove, CA)

Flying home to #ABQ, it’s both scary and heartbreaking to see the Rio Grande completely dry. What will become of us here in the desert?…

Seriously encouraging good news. We need to remember there are actually lots of really good things happening all over too!

Zane Selvans@zaneselvans.org · 2mo ago

A welcome reminder that laws can also be enforced through technical countermeasures, not just by lawyers. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/concret...

Ah yes, this fractal perspective explains so much!

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If the world is chaotic, collapsing, emerging, reordering, regenerating, recombinant, fractal, with most of the deep stuff underground or loop upon loop of feedback why would you expect your life or your work to be tidy and orderly. Hmm?

Important story to learn about! I’ve assumed and trusted that Wikimedia Foundation was an honorable ethical org. But NO, they will destroy Wikipedia if they keep acting like any other tech company. They must not be allowed to destroy this crown jewel of the internet!

Jacky!@omg.jacky.wtf · 2mo ago

[Now that's public] I've cancelled my donations to Wikipedia after some of us found out this happened. Again, "benevolent" executives are the fucking problem.

Applied physics! Kinetic energy scales as the square of velocity, so slowing down a little lowers energy a lot, and saves lives. Be like Finland - respect science, value life!

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

New Mexico, let's goooo!

@janettes-999.bsky.social@janettes-999.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The citizens of Festus, Missouri, population approximately 14,000, just voted out every single city council member who secretly approved a gigantic data center. A recall petition is also being circulated to remove the mayor and council members who were not on the ballot.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live! 1. Pink Floyd 2. Santana 3. Jeff Beck 4. Rush 5. Stevie Ray Vaughan 6. Roger Waters 7. Jethro Tull 8. Paul McCartney 9. Grateful Dead 10. Depeche Mode

Dr. Wendy Bohon@drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. NIN 2. The Ramones 3. Guns N Roses 4. Phish 5. Them Crooked Vultures 6. Tori Amos 7. Glen Phillips 8. The Indigo Girls 9. Bon Jovi 10. Greg Brown

I think Dr Sawin is exactly right. Another brilliant and essential thread. Thank you for your courage and sharing your wisdom!

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

But, on a world hurtling further out of balance everyday, maybe that system-detonating power of celebrating the sacred is just the thing we need. What do you think?

This is a tremendously eye-opening thread about the natural leaders of our species - the wise, powerful women, the ones we’ve been blatantly ignoring. At our peril.

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Another great thread by Beth Sawin about how we ought to organize ourselves as a society and species in the complex systems we are part of. We are so smart… and yet so dumb!

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A society that embraced complexity and interconnection instead of fighting it at every turn would, imo... - prize feedback, say by bolstering democracy and the free press and penalizing those who weaken either, knowing that systems without feedback quickly spin out of control

I love #SanFrancisco! Riding the BART to SFO, heading home. Grateful to be in a city with working public transit and glad to see how much nicer the BART has become since I last rode it. Wonder how much ridership has increased since gas is now ~$6.50 / gallon here…

It feels so good to support EFF! Plus I got a cool bumper sticker, “Do you follow tech policy this closely?” 😂

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 3mo ago

Sick of this ever-expanding surveillance state? Want to claw back your privacy? You can do so by supporting EFF! eff.org/spring

Happy earth day everybody! We sure live in a beautiful planet! Let’s keep it that way

I love old flying machines. I love new flying machines. I love how people have been using their ingenuity to solve the dream of flight for ages. Did I mention I’m building a flying machine in my living room?

Marlène Aviation@aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Chère Hélice" (Dear Propeller) of 1861 is one of the first motorised helicopter in history. With a revolutionary design for its time (counter-rotating propeller, first use of aluminium in aeronautics). It proved that an object could be lighter thanks to an aerial propeller.

Poor Stegasaurus - clearly the coolest - only got 4% :(

David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com · 4mo ago

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

Here in New Mexico I fear for the impact our dwindling aquifer will have on our way of life. Less rain and snow and hotter weather means it’s not replenishing, and in not too long, things will have to adapt - sharply. Not happy about what that looks like, alas.

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For your own life, community, or organization, what are some stocks that might be most impacted by the kinds of disruptions or shocks that you expect in coming months/years? How are you (or could you be) preparing? (From Chapter 11, Multisolving in Tumultuous Times.

Reading the magnificent book “The Beginning Comes After the End” by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about exactly this topic. Its subtitle is “Notes on a World of Change”, and I’m recommending it to everyone I care about.

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 4mo ago

And, importantly, if you don't understand how much we have changed the world in a very short time then you cannot imagine how much more we can change it within our own lifetimes.

Tinker Toys were for cool kids, Lincoln Logs were for losers

Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Gobots toys were better toys than the Transformers toys

Today is the deadline to voice your opposition to the proposed drilling in the sacred Chaco Canyon landscape. Please speak up!

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Chaco Canyon is sacred. Chaco Canyon is holy. These places should not be drilled on. Raise your voice and public comment by tomorrow—to say NO to drilling in the Greater Chaco Landscape! eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Of all the jobs I do, teaching fractals to kids is one of my very favorites! We’re at Inez Elementary today, inspiring young people with the beauty of science math and art.

I just sent a long, self-expressed message to @heinrich.senate.gov letting him know how disappointed I am over his vote to support *anyone* to run DHS at this time. It makes him look naive/stupid at best, or evil. He needs to do better. Let him know yourself: www.heinrich.senate.gov/contact/writ...

Write Martin | U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

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Katie Stone@abqkatiestone.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey New Mexicans, give Martin a call about voting in unqualified and violent friends as leaders. Let him know where you stand and how much his alignment with Fetterman and the GOP extremists impacts his own reputation: (202) 224-5521

Really want to find a way to watch this Iranian film, about a wonderfully courageous and powerful woman! youtu.be/cLcPT_MpwVM?...

CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS Trailer

YouTube video by Film Forum

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I just donated too! Hell yeah I’ll support a progressive democrat on the other side of the country. We need more brave smart young leaders like Kat!

Lizzy “mets fan”@thedirtbird.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I just donated!! You can too!!

I always learn something interesting from @thechildrenshour.bsky.social “Compadre” - friends who are godfathers to each other’ children. Makes sense :) So good!

Katie Stone@abqkatiestone.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am helping you escape the doom and gloom with @thechildrenshour.bsky.social today with the legendary storyteller Joe Hayes. Livestream the KUNM feed at childrenshour.org and take a break. Fill your heart with goodness.

And in the spirit of exploring this social protocol, I’m starting to play with some other AT clients, like the Canadian @gandersocial.bsky.social and the French Element X. It’s exciting to see non-US tech platforms emerging to offer us disenshittefied social tools on this protocol. Urgently needed!

Jonathan Wolfe@fractalic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very glad to see that the AT protocol that underlies Bluesky is robust enough that the long resistant and appropriately skeptical Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been able to set up his own server and join the ecosystem. Yeay!

Very glad to see that the AT protocol that underlies Bluesky is robust enough that the long resistant and appropriately skeptical Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been able to set up his own server and join the ecosystem. Yeay!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5mo ago

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/e... #Pluralistic 1/

I like the framing around Positive Tipping Points. There are valuable urgent things happening that are accelerating and that’s good - we need to nudge society in certain directions and let positive feedback loops kick in to accelerate the changes we need. global-tipping-points.org/positive-tip...

Positive Tipping Points - Global Tipping Points

Key Messages Download Section 3: Positive Tipping Points What the Experts Say Kirsten Dunlop CEO, European Institute of Innovation & Technology Climate-KIC Jemilah Mahmood Executive Director, Sunway C...

global-tipping-points.org

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What do tipping points mean for climate policy? Climate change won't be smooth. Delay reaching emission targets by a few years, and you might not just get slightly worse climate impacts. You may unwittingly cross a line for unstoppable, massive changes. global-tipping-points.org